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Halifax raises mortgage rate [01/13/2007 01:17 PM]
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Britains biggest mortgage lender Halifax has raised its mortgage rate following the Bank of Englands shock interest rate rise
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ICICI savings rate up to 5.65% [01/13/2007 01:17 PM]
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The post-rate rise savings war has fired up, with ICICI bank raising the rate on its online HiSave account to 5.65% from 5.45% >>Beat the rate rise|
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Market report: Friday close [01/13/2007 01:17 PM]
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17.00:Investors were checking into Inter-ContinentalHotel (ICH) today as rumours of a 1500p takeover offer grew louder
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Remortgage to beat the rise [01/13/2007 01:17 PM]
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Thousands of people will be looking to remortgage as a result of the bank rate rise. This is Money mortgage expert Simon Lambert picks the best deals
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Sky faces probe into £940m ITV share raid [01/13/2007 01:17 PM]
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BSkyB is to be formally investigated over its £940m raid on ITV shares in November
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Lord Browne quits BP early [01/13/2007 01:17 PM]
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Chief executive Lord Browne, who had fought for the right to stay on at BP beyond 2008, will leave in July, the company announced this afternoon
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Beckham move sparks domain-name rush [01/13/2007 01:17 PM]
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David Beckham's big money move to the United States has prompted a frenzy of 'cyber squatting', a leading domain name firm said today
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Strike threat as unions reject BA deal [01/13/2007 01:17 PM]
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Check-in staff and baggage handlers at British Airways today rejected a proposed deal to tackle the airline's huge pension deficit and warned of possible industrial action
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Carphone tries new free broadband push [01/13/2007 01:17 PM]
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Carphone Warehouse is to make a renewed push of its free broadband service to TalkTalk customers
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Small returns from FP with-profits [01/13/2007 01:17 PM]
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Friends Provident has made small increases to bonus rates for some with-profits policyholders but the majority will see no immediately benefit
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FSA widens PPI crackdown [01/13/2007 01:17 PM]
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The financial watchdog is stepping up its work to crackdown on the selling of controversial payment protection insurance, by sending out undercover 'mystery shoppers'
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Floods raise insurance fears [01/13/2007 01:17 PM]
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59 flood warnings have been issued across the UK - Insurance experts are warning homeowners to urgently check their insurance arrangements
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Homeowners absorb rate shock [01/13/2007 01:17 PM]
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Millions of homebuyers were today assessing the impact on their mortgage repayments of yesterday's sudden rate hike - the third in just five months
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Rival sues Apple over iPhone name [01/13/2007 01:17 PM]
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Less than 24 hours after Apple unveiled its new iPhone, a rival company is suing for an alleged trademark violation
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ATM plant closure to cost 650 Scottish jobs [01/13/2007 01:17 PM]
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US-owned cash machine producer NCR is to axe 650 manufacturing jobs as it confirmed it will close down its Dundee plant
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Experts warn on mortgage crisis [01/13/2007 01:17 PM]
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More than 50 families will lose their homes every day this year because they cannot cope with their mortgages, experts have warned
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Novice landlords defy rental downturn [01/13/2007 01:17 PM]
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Newcomers are flooding the buy-to-let market, refusing to be spooked by the fact that rental returns have fallen to a five-year low
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Fanfare as iPhone unveiled [01/13/2007 01:17 PM]
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It's a phone, an MP3 player, a camera and a hand-held computer, and at £260 it's got Apple shares soaring. So is this the gadget the world's been waiting for?
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NU casts doom for endowments [01/13/2007 01:17 PM]
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Norwich Union has admitted there is a high risk that 90% of its mortgage endowment policies will not perform well enough to cover policyholder's home loans
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WHS closes final-salary pension scheme [01/13/2007 01:17 PM]
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WH Smith has announced that it is winding up its final-salary pension scheme, affecting 2,000 of its staff and 700 more at demerged distribution arm Smiths News
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Tesco to sell private medical cover [01/13/2007 01:17 PM]
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Tesco has announced that it is to sell private medical insurance in a further expansion into the personal finance market>> NEWS & ADVICE: Health insurance
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Warning on new year gym sign-ups [01/13/2007 01:17 PM]
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January is the best month of the year for gyms and health clubs - but This is Money reveals the various pitfalls of rushing to sign up
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Civil Service pensions curbed [01/13/2007 01:17 PM]
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Future recruits to the Civil Service will have to work until 65 and their pension will not be linked to their final salary
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Hawks seize the controls [01/13/2007 01:17 PM]
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City economists had to show shock at the rate rise - otherwise their employers at the investment banks might wonder why they bother to pay such ill-informed geniuses so well
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30 Second Guide To German Growth [01/13/2007 01:17 PM]
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The Daily Mail City team examine why things are looking up in Germany after years of stagnant consumer spending.
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Midas: Credit Experian with a look [01/13/2007 01:17 PM]
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This week the Financial Mail's top stockpicker takes a closer look at credit checking agency Experian, and concludes it's a good time to buy
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They falsely invoiced then threatened me [01/13/2007 01:17 PM]
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This week the ace investigator takes a closer look at a company called Imprint, which has issued false invoices for children's safety handbook
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When insurers make a policy out of sleaze [01/13/2007 01:17 PM]
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There are apparently no tactics too base for some insurers in their efforts to squeeze every last drop of profit out of their policyholders
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